The last four players agreed for a one hour dinner break. Action will resume at blinds 250,000/ 500,000 with a 500,000 ante. The orange 5,000 chips will be colored up.
On a limped pot, the flop showed when Victore Paredes and Darrin Wright checked.
The turn showed the and Paredes first checked. Wright bet 700,000 and it was quickly raised to 2,100,000 by Paredes. Wright folded and Paredes tabled .
Darrin Wright raised to 800,000 before Hanan Braun re-raised to 2,000,000. Wright called to see a flop of .
Wright pushed a stack forward to put Braun all in and Braun called. "Do you have an eight," Braun asked.
"I've got a lot of eights," Wright replied, showing for quads. Braun had and was already drawing dead by the turn. The fell on the river, and Wright continued his steamroll of this final table by knocking out another player.
It folded to Darrin Wright on the button who limped and Colten Yamagishi completed. Victor Paredes decided to three-bet to 2,000,000 and it was enough to grab the pot right away.
On the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Jesse Fullen and Chad Holloway come to you from the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP)!
In this episode, they first talk about Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan making their Hustler Casino Live debut when they participated in a wild $200/$400 NLH cash game against players like Matt Berkey and Garrett Adelstein. How did they do? Find out in this episode.
They then recap all the recent WSOP bracelet winners including post-victory interviews with Kevin Gerhart, Carlos Chang, and Bradley Ruben, as well as talk about Gediminas Uselis winning the MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event for $325,428 and Jeff Platt making a deep run in Event #43: $1,000 Double Stack.
Finally, Chad offers a "Where Are They Now" update on 2009 WSOP bracelet winner Jerrod Ankenman, who was a pioneer of mathematics in poker and even co-wrote the poker book The Mathematics of Poker alongside Bill Chen.